Disclaimer: Selco's blog is NOT a fun type of reading for the faint of heart.
It is about real survival during total collapse & the worst of times but it is the very best information you could ever read.
I've an understated Military background and have seen a lot of evils and I'm definitely not one who is faint of heart.
I've studied here at Selco's blog for a number of years. It is the only real & complete Survival Blog I'd actually recommend to anyone that I love.

Selco's SHTF School & blog, read at your own choosing to go where few other bloggers
know enough to tell the truth about what a real life SHTF & Community or Country's Collapse really is about in real life.
Selco's Blog is Here - https://shtfschool.com/blog/

I would suggest these topics to read about first:
Bartering & Community
Skills vs money. Skills are the most traded and shared, to be honest. Money can become worthless. Gold/Silver Metals? Who knows.
Medical Is highly needed.
Food skills are necessary, duh....

To be even more honest, I'd hesitated in sharing Selco's blog here, for people could be thinking I was instilling fears, and I'm not.
But I'd suffer later if I didn't share & I could never forgive myself.

Center for Disease Control ZOMBIE Preparedness pagehttps://search.cdc.gov/search/?query=zo ... e=cdc-main
"Wonder why zombies, zombie apocalypse, and zombie preparedness continue to live or walk dead on a CDC web site? As it turns out what first began as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very effective platform. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via “zombie preparedness”.

Simple USA Crime Map:https://www.santarosa-lawyer.com/united ... -map-2017/
The rate is noted in the numbers of violent crimes per 100,000 population. Hover over state to see those rates.
"*Violent Crimes Include: Murder, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault. Data does not include property crimes."

FBI Reports on Violent Crimes 1995-2017 - Main page - https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucrThe UCR Program consists of four data collections: "The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the Summary Reporting System (SRS), the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program, and the Hate Crime Statistics Program. The UCR Program publishes annual reports for each of these data collections and a preliminary semiannual report of summary data each winter, as well as special compilations such as Cargo Theft Report, Human Trafficking, and NIBRS topical studies. In addition to the four major data collections, the UCR Program will manage the new National Use-of-Force Data Collection. And the FBI's interactive Crime Data Explorer tool serves as the digital front door for UCR data, enabling law enforcement and the general public to more easily use and understand the massive amounts of UCR data currently collected."

Crime Data Explorer (CDE)https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/
"The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE) is the digital front door for UCR data. The interactive online tool enables law enforcement and the general public to more easily use and understand the massive amounts of UCR data currently collected. With it, users can view charts and graphs that break down data in a variety of ways."

If interested, there are other year and more detailed reports available on FBI's main page.
Those links, are the best. I do not like to focus on crimes, however, I have to recognize that criminals & frequent crime exists and I refuse to be a victim.

Inside Mexico/Guatamala Border, an Invasion & escalating of Border War, trying to tear down the wall, Military helicopters, general riot & chaoshttp://bit.ly/2AxFSi4
US Army's James Mattis did sign an order to put Military at the US border, I think early Sunday the 28th. It's been on the table for a while now.
It is a LONG video, I fast fwd through beginning, at about 40 mins from end is the helicopters. Wondering if it's typical October Surprise b4 mid-terms.

"Learn the past, to see the future" ~~Sun Tzu, ancient book, The Art of War.

Mexico wants their land back Mexico was stripped of half of its territory and was NOT consoled by the monetary settlement via US History http://www.ushistory.org/us/29d.asp NOTE: Just the fact they've been talking about it heavily for several years, now has filed demands. Carlos Arredondo the HERO of Boston Bombing, is now traveling the Hispanic USA circuit. He's not a hero, it's all just a setup. March 2017 - A Mexican politician filed a demand Friday to annul the agreement that forced Mexico to give up more than 50 percent of its national territory to the United States.https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0020.htmlWill Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opin ... -back.html

Sep 14, 2018 ... The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. ... Pew Research Center regularly publishes statistical portraits of the nation's ... Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20 ... mmigrants/

This is a huge looming issue for California, Arizona, New Mexico and a large portion of Texas, which I already know about, The timing is right for the nearly 1,000 Pro-Immigration NGO groups promoting & funding immigration and community settling services and the future food crop losses, to be worse in late 2019. One major USA wide (41 states) Pro-Immigration NGOs who also provides immigrants Immigration Attorneys.

They have also petitioned and won the case for the release of 46,000 prison inmates. I've not followed up on those releases. "The court’s more liberal members — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, (Hispanic) Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — joined Justice Kennedy’s opinion. Justice Scalia summarized the decision this way, adding italics for emphasis: “The three-judge court ordered the premature release of approximately 46,000 criminals — the equivalent of three Army divisions.”Prison Reform, Increase Inmate Releases to be 30,000 in 2018Results - The Safe Sound Prison document - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... ocument/p2

What about jobs, or medications? This is why I recently brought up the topic of Psychiatric & Opiate addictive drugs.

Mexico has been discussing taking back their lands that USA took over in 1846. Mexico's leaders at that time, got all the money, but in general did nothing for their peoples, Mexico has never been happy. I know the history of SOA, it was a US Army School of Assassins, under name of School of Americas. They created & led the Argentinian and Guatamalan genocide. El Salvadore was the worst. Twelve officers were cited by the UN. Ten were SOA graduates. There have been many Latin American operatives who also trained at SoA. SoA is now named WHINSEC and still operational.
SOAWatch Group - "SOA" School of Assassins Watch
SOA Watch Border Encuentro 2018:
"Time is flying and in less than 2 months we will converge at the US/Mexico border in ambos Nogales for our 3rd SOA Watch Border Encuentro this November 16-18:
Dismantle Border Imperialism! "Struggle, Create, Power to the People! lhttp://www.soaw.org/border-encuentro/20 ... endorsers/
SOAW's demands, Open US/Mexico Borders, An end to US economic, military and political intervention in Latin America, and the closure of SOA/WHINSEC

Disclaimer: I am not against prison reform or fair & legal immigration. History does repeat. Inside USA has been quiet for 170 years and winter is here.

PENTAGON: US Mexico Border via STRIPES , my go to for Military News https://www.stripes.com/pentagon-deploy ... r-1.554452
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has notified some 7,000 active-duty servicemembers that they could be sent to support its new operation along the U.S.-Mexico border as the military prepares to expand the mission beyond the initial 5,200 troops set to deploy by the weekend, officials said Wednesday.

Dept of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday dismissed concerns raised by some Democratic lawmakers and others that the deployment was a political move ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections by President Donald Trump who has raised illegal immigration as his primary concern in recent weeks. Mattis called the deployment “practical support” for the Homeland Security Department.

“We don't do [political] stunts in this department,” Jim Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.

Later Wednesday, Trump told reporters outside the White House that he intended to send 10,000 to 15,000 troops to the border, indicating as many as 6,000 additional troops could receive notifications to prepare to deploy in the near future. The Pentagon did not have an immediate reaction to Trump’s statement, a spokesman said. The Pentagon has identified 13 bases in California, Arizona and Texas to support the border operations, according to the documents.

Note: Yes, they have already deployed, as of very early October 31, 2018, there are LONG trains in Arizona heading to the border with flat cars loaded with Military Vehicles, Tanks, Water & Fuel trucks, and others.Migrants Open Fire on Mex Cops, 2429 via Still Report [youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kWA4c3U8i8 [/youtube]

Jade Helm Military Exercises, What were they really about?http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/12 ... -all-along
"Oh, and unless there's been some sort of mistake, JADE HELM actually stands for the amazingly obtuse Joint Assistance for Deployment Execution Homeland Eradication of Local Militants. A separate web search for this phrase does not turn up any other results. These are exactly the sort of vagaries that provide space for conspiracy theories. In particular, the phrase “Homeland Eradication of Local Militants,” the official meaning of which no one ever explains in the Air Force story, sounds almost engineered to provoke the same concerns from same communities that came up surrounding the 2015 exercise."

Note: Be sure to take a look at the MAP in above linked document.
It makes me when people, namely the writers of article above, have no vision or understanding of history or Military Strategies.
I'm a realist, and Mexico has been conspiring to take their land back. Unfortunately, they have numerous foreign and American "helpers"
US Military knows it too.

No more FBI monitoring NICS CCW approvals & can get CCW automatic approval just by taking a 4 hour class? Has been fairly unheard of in the past. Maybe some don't see what I see, ahead. Also, all knife laws including laws on switchblades have been repealed in majority of US States mostly within the past 2 & 3 years nearly tripling the number of State Knife law repeals?

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This class will fulfill the requirements to apply for your Arizona Concealed Carry permit. The 4 hours will cover many of the legal aspects of carrying a concealed weapon in Arizona. At the end of the class and you will have your class completion certificate, 2 completed fingerprint cards and completed Arizona CCW application.
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At the conclusion of the class the participant will have everything needed to apply to the State of Arizona for a CCW permit except for the postage and $60 fee charged by the State of Arizona for your application. You will not get your permit at the class, the State of Arizona Dept of Public safety issues the permits.

Benefits of having your Concealed Carry Permit - You skip federal NICS background check because you are pre-approved by Arizona Department of Public Safety to purchase a firearm.

Missing the Marx: Gun Control’s Future is … Communism?
Friday, November 2, 2018 https://www.nraila.org/articles/2018110 ... -communism
"Glastris admits the proposal is “not modest” but insists “Americans deserve broad, sweeping reforms,” rather than “years of painstaking incrementalism … .” He also dismisses the more conventional gun control agenda of banning semiautomatic rifles and “high capacity” magazines, closing the “gun show loophole,” and imposing categorical prohibitions on certain criminals. “[I[t is hard to argue that these reforms, even if they all went into effect, would do much more than put a modest dent in the problem,” Glastris writes.

There will come a time, Glastris speculates, when “Democrats control both the White House and Congress.” He continues, “When that moment arrives, wouldn’t it be better if, instead of debating marginal fixes, there were new ideas on the table to actually address the root of the problem by substantially reducing the number of guns in circulation?”
Of course, there have been other “visionaries” who have dreamed of common ownership of the means of production. Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin come to mind.

And while Glastris is admittedly limiting his proposal only to the means of producing handguns, it still suffers from the inherent problems that have doomed similar ideological projects throughout history. Glastris argues that his plan could be implemented “without infringing on Americans’ right to bear arms,” yet the whole point is to reduce the availability and raise the price of what the U.S. Supreme Court has called “the quintessential self-defense weapon.” If the same plan were implemented with regard to books, no one would dare claim that it did not violate the First Amendment."

NOTE: Even NRA [now] knows the history of Marx & Lenin and also knows who & what Communism really was back then, and now, what it is all about.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker issued a new asylum rule today as officials at the U.S. southern border and U.S. military prepare to confront an approaching horde of approximately 20,000 Central American migrant/invaders. [U.S. Department of Justice] Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen today announced an Interim Final Rule declaring that those aliens who contravene a presidential suspension or limitation on entry into the United States through the southern border with Mexico issued under section 212(f) or 215(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) will be rendered ineligible for asylum.Thursday, November 8, 2018
DOJ and DHS Issue New Asylum Rule
Applies President’s authority to suspend entry to asylumhttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-and- ... sylum-rule

Breitbart stated: But officials have drafted a regulation that would replace the Crista Flores catch-and-release rule. The regulation would allow officials to keep migrants with children in tent cities, so ending the catch-and-release policies if Congress fully funds the tent cities. If catch-and-release is ended, the grants lose their ability to get jobs in the United States which they need to repay their smuggling debts. However, Democrats and business-first Republicans have been loath to build legal or physical barriers to the movement of migrants into U.S. jobs, apartments and supermarkets. The new policy is likely to be blocked by pro-migration judges. In turn, officials likely will ask for the Supreme Court to let the policy continue while courts argue over its legality. https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2018/ ... -24594.pdf

NOTE: 20,000 people is about 2 Divisions, as in, a large Army made up of platoons, where each platoon has squads & each has a set of jobs/orders. It's already been discovered they're mostly military aged men. WHO IS running this show? Crickets